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Liverpool earned the right to do what they like over the closing weeks by being so utterly dominant in the Premier League this term.

A lead of 15 points with two games remaining tells its own story.

Indeed, Arsenal still couldn't beat Liverpool on Sunday despite the Reds, with no other competitions to play for, having barely trained for the most part in the week leading up to the game.



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There are a couple of other points to make.

It is unusual for a Premier League title to be wrapped up so early with the winning club not having any other commitments.

And when Liverpool were regularly winning the title in the 1970s and 1980s, instant travel wasn't quite so straightforward and the all-seeing-eye of social media didn't exist.

Liverpool were that far ahead at the top of the table, they could afford to take just two points from their final seven games and still win the title by 11 points.

You can bet there were more than a few nights out during the closing weeks of that campaign.

Liverpool have earned the right to do whatever they want in the final weeks of the campaign, having wrapped up the title so early.

If Arne Slot wants to stick Mighty Red on up front for the trip to Brighton or final match against Crystal Palace at Anfield, then that's his prerogative.

Take 2007, for instance, when Neil Warnock whinged long and loud over Rafael Benitez's decision to change his team in the final weeks of the campaign, leading to Fulham picking up the points to keep them up and Sheffield United condemned to the Championship.

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Warnock never forgave Benitez but the Spaniard was rightly prioritising his own club and a Champions League final.

And so it means Slot can rotate, party and give his team the time off until his heart's content.
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